Vol. 20 No. 2
FEATURED STORIES
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A Wake-up Call for Germans and Americans
By Michael Bröcker (Burns 2010)
A new kind of insignificance characterizes the German-American relationship. That was the essence of Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s speech at the 15th Burns dinner in Berlin on June 1. The chairman of the parliamentary group of the Social Democratic Party and former foreign minister drew a gloomy picture of the complexity of transatlantic relations. It was supposed to be a wake-up call for the 140 Burns alumni, board members and guests who gathered in the atrium of the Berlin headquarters of Deutsche Bank and who consider the transatlantic relationship close to their hearts.
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| Frank-Walter Steinmeier and 2010 alumnus Michael Bröcker, sharing a lighter moment. |
“Let’s not mince words,” began Steinmeier during his 40 minute speech. “The German-American relationship muddles along with no euphoria, no passion, no results.” Regarding the most recent trip by U.S. President Barack Obama to four European countries without a stop in Berlin, the opposition leader in the German Bundestag challenged Chancellor Merkel and her coalition to risk the fundamentals of the transatlantic partnership in order to improve it.
“It’s on us to show that a close partnership with Germany is indispensable for the United States,” he said. Without explicitly mentioning the conflict over military intervention in Libya and the German abstention vote in the United Nations, Steinmeier put his finger in the wound when he quoted The New York Times writer Roger Cohen who commented on Merkel’s foreign policy decisions: “She has a surprising talent for unpredictability.” Steinmeier concluded that German officials need to develop nothing less than a new “foreign policy agenda.”
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| Chairman of the German board of trustees and dinner co-host Rainer Neske, welcoming the dinner guests. |
There was much for the journalists at the dinner tables to discuss. “We were listening to the true foreign minister,” said Peter Dausend (Burns 1998). Steinmeier presented an “unvarnished description of the status of the transatlantic relationship,” said Dausend, an editor of the weekly magazine Die Zeit.
Other guests were more optimistic and indicated that the basic exchange among students, tourists and professionals—not politicians—makes the transatlantic relationship so special. “In the end, there are evenings like this one and German-American initiatives like the Arthur F. Burns Program which ensure that relations last,” said Florian Gathmann (Burns 2006).
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| IJP trustees Rüdiger Frohn of the Mercator Foundation and Erik Bettermann of Deutsche Welle. |
Indeed, the Burns network showed once again its vigorous role in the German-American relationship. Of the more than 200 alumni living in Germany, more than half accepted the invitation to the annual dinner. Figures show that expertise in international politics within the Burns network is rising sharply. Out of the 400 Burns alumni, nearly 80 currently work as foreign correspondents, said Frank-Dieter Freiling, director of the program.
For Peter Ammon, the newly appointed German ambassador to the United States, the dinner was his introduction to the Burns family. In a short keynote speech, he said that he often argued that declining significance of the transatlantic relationship can be overturned. “I’m optimistic,” Ammon said, but directed his expectations to the guests in the audience. “A lot depends on you. Keep the exchange alive.”
Michael Bröcker is the Berlin bureau chief of the Rheinische Post. He spent his fellowship in 2010 at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
2010 Burns and Kennan Award Winners
The 2010 Burns and Kennan Award winners covered a broad range of topics—from the tragic suicide of an Iraq war veteran, to the homeschooling of German children, to the U.S. Congressional elections of 2010.
Cordula Meyer (Burns 1998), Washington correspondent for Der Spiegel, won the German Burns Award for her article “
Dämonen im Kopf (Battling the Inner Demons of War),” published on March 22, 2010. In her article, she writes about the life of U.S. army medic Joseph Dwyer, who became an iconic symbol of an American war hero when he rescued a four-year-old Iraqi boy in the midst of a battle. In her powerful article, Meyer recounts the drama that unfolded after Dwyer came to fame: his suffering and self-doubt, and the difficult transition back to civilian life. He took his own life five years after his last deployment. While focusing on the tragic story of Joe Dwyer, Meyer also raises awareness of the larger issue of suicide among U.S. veterans, which claimed more than twice as many victims in 2009 than the Iraq war itself.
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Burns and Kennan jury member Claus Strunz (left) introducing the 2010 award winners together with State Secretary Peter Ammon, Germany´s next ambassador to the United States.
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Krista Kapralos (Burns 2010) won the U.S. Burns Award for “
Unsere Kinder leben in Verborgenen (Homeschoolers risk jail, thwart officials in Germany),” published on December 8, 2010, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and in abbreviated form on December 9, 2010, in religiousnews.com. Kapralos conducted extensive research during her Burns fellowship in 2010, and skillfully covers the recent and growing phenomenon of homeschooling in Germany. She discusses the variety of reasons why parents decide against enrolling their children in the public school system, the possible punishments and consequences they are willing to accept for this decision, and the different strategies parents use in order not to get caught.
The two 2,000-Euro prizes are awarded by Germany’s foreign minister.
Additionally, the jury awarded one German and one American Burns alumni with honorary mentions. Christian Salewski (Burns 2010) was honored for his article “Der China Kracher (The China Firecracker),” published in the January edition of Capital. Salewski reports on the scandal of the plaster corporation Knauf from Franken, Germany, which provided contaminated drywall from China to U.S. construction projects during the American building boom. He uncovered this example of one of the pitfalls of globalization during his Burns Fellowship in 2010. Aaron Ricadela (Burns 2003) received the mention for his feature “SAP Co-CEOs chart a bold new course,” published on May 21, 2010, in Bloomberg Businessweek.com. In an intelligent and well-researched article, Ricadela writes about Germany’s fourth largest corporation, which is managed by American and Danish leadership.
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Award winners Cordula Meyer of Der Spiegel and Christian Wernicke of Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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The 2,000-Euro George F. Kennan Commentary Award went to Christian Wernicke, U.S. correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, for his article called “
Der blutleere Präsident (The bloodless President),” published on November 2, 2010. With more than five years of experience writing about U.S. politics and how it is perceived in Germany, Wernicke produced an insightful analysis of the U.S. Congressional election on November 2, 2010. He focused on the lack of understanding in Germany for why Obama, who enjoys an almost heroic status in much of Europe, suffered such a severe defeat in his own nation. He refutes common German clichés about declining U.S. support for Obama, and instead counters with a perceptive analysis of the U.S. political atmosphere in the aftermath of the financial crisis. He writes that “what Obama enacts as modernization, appears to many as a break with the system. And as un-American.” However, he concludes that if Obama learns his lesson from the mid-term election defeat, he can reemerge as a hero—for both Europeans and Americans.
The jury also gave an honorable mention to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung correspondent Stefan Tomik (Burns 2009) for his
lead article on the journalistic topic of the year, Wikileaks, which was published in the Sunday edition of his paper. The jury commended Tomik for his bold and excellently written commentary on whether the actions of Julian Assange and his group were right or wrong. While the content itself was controversial for some members of the jury, all agreed that the article deserved to be honorably mentioned for its high journalistic quality.
The jury for both awards was comprised of journalists Sabine Christiansen (TV21 Media), Dr. Christoph von Marschall (Tagesspiegel), Claus Strunz (Hamburger Abendblatt), and Dr. Dominik Wichmann (Stern), as well as Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling (ZDF) and Petra Stoeckl (Foreign Ministry of Germany).
Burns Reaches the Pacific: First Alumni Dinner in San Francisco
By Alex Davidson (Burns 2005)
More than two dozen Burns alumni gathered in San Francisco on April 14 for the first ever west coast dinner.
The event, hosted by the German consulate, is part of an effort by Burns administrators to encourage greater communication among past participants of the fellowship. Organizers said the event will likely become an annual occurrence.
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Jennifer Kho (2004), Rachel Barth (2010) and Jochen Breitwieser of SonicWALL enjoy the reception at the consulate.
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Frank Freiling commented, "After nearly 25 years, we have enough alumni on the West Coast to bring together a community that is as active as on the East Coast. We hope that alumni in Los Angeles and San Francisco will also take the initiative and organize themselves for drinks, events or local speakers once in a while, so that there is a stronger exchange between alumni in the region.”
German Consul General Peter Rothen said, "I hope that the 2011 West Coast Arthur F. Burns Dinner here in San Francisco will not remain a singular event, but that it will become another great tradition for the fellowship."
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Dinner speaker Samir Aurora of Glam Media with 1993 alumnus Matthew Marshall.
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The featured speaker at the dinner was Samir Arora, the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Glam Media. Arora talked about the changing media landscape and how consumer behavior has evolved since the collapse of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s.
Future events for Bay Area alumni are in the works. Stay tuned!
Alex Davidson is a writer/editor for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where he coordinates the Bank’s social media presence. He spent his fellowship in 2005 at The Associated Press in Berlin.
New German Ambassador to United States will take over as Burns Patron
By Maia Curtis
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State Secretary Peter Ammon, Germany´s next ambassador to the United States.
Dr. Klaus Scharioth, German ambassador to the United States since 2006, will leave his post at the end of June. He has been an active and supportive patron to the Burns Fellowship throughout his years in Washington and his service will be missed.
The new ambassador is Dr. Peter Ammon, currently the state secretary of the Federal Foreign Office. Dr. Ammon worked for three years as a professor of economics before joining Germany’s foreign service in 1978. Throughout his years in the service, he has worked in several embassies around the world, including New Delhi, Dakar and London. From 1999-2001, he served as the economics minister at the embassy in Washington. From 2007-2008, he served as the German ambassador to France. He will assume his new post in Washington in August.
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World Affairs magazine recently asked Frank Loy, chairman of the Burns board and former under secretary of state, to write a defense of President Obama’s foreign policy. Please read his
article.
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IJP Research Grants - Call for Applications
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| Matt Johanson reported on global warming with his travel and research grant in 2007. Here he interviewed Frank Huber, the chief architect of Zugspitze’s ski slopes. |
Internationale Journalisten Programme (IJP) and the Arthur F. Burns Fellowships are providing a special opportunity for journalists with a passion for research and storytelling around the globe.
IJP’s Research Grants offer stipends of up to €4,000 to as many as 10-15 print, broadcast and new media journalists. Grantees will be selected by an advisory board, including professionals and trustees working in journalism.
Who: All IJP and Burns alumni are eligible—both newsroom staffers and freelancers.
What: The grants support ambitious journalism projects including, but not limited to, the global economic crisis. Joint projects between journalists from different countries are encouraged, but individual projects will also be considered. A transatlantic perspective should be part of the project.
When: The deadline is ongoing throughout 2011 until funds are exhausted.
Selection Criteria: When choosing, we consider each candidate’s professional accomplishments and potential; his or her individual and organizational commitment; and the potential impact of the proposed journalistic project. For collaborative projects, each applicant should submit a separate application that incorporates the jointly developed project proposal. Click
here for details on what to submit.
Requirements: The program will only review completed applications endorsed by a news organization. Stories must be published or broadcast within four months of grant award date. Eighty percent of the amount of each grant will be paid at the outset of the project, with the remaining 20 percent to be paid upon publication or broadcast. Applicants are expected to join
ijpcommunity.org, a new web 2.0 Community for IJP alumni and the official web site for the grants.
Sponsored by: The IJP Research Grants are financed by contributions from Goldman Sachs and the Ford Foundation. Additional funding comes from the transatlantic program of the Federal Republic of Germany with funding from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi).
2011 Fellows
GERMAN FELLOWS
(Host media in parentheses)
Anne Allmeling, Reporter, Deutsche Welle, Hamburg
(WBUR, Boston)
Jochen Brenner, Reporter, Der Spiegel, Hamburg
(MediaStorm, Brooklyn, NY)
Moritz Honert, Reporter, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin
(Chicago Tribune)
Cornelius Pollmer, Reporter, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dresden
(Los Angeles Times)
Anne Raith, Reporter, Deutschlandfunk, Köln
(TBA)
Gordon Repinski, Capital Correspondent, Die Tageszeitung, Berlin
(San Diego Union Tribune)
Paul Ronzheimer, Reporter, Bild, Berlin
(TBA)
Stephan Seiler, Freelance Journalist, Hamburg
(New York Times Magazine)
Janko Tietz, Writer, Der Spiegel, Hamburg
(Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA)
Klaus Werle, Senior Editor, Manager Magazin, Hamburg
(TBA)
U.S. FELLOWS
(Host media in parentheses)
Eve Bower, Editor, CNN International, Atlanta, GA
(Deutsche Welle Radio, Englischer Dienst, Bonn)
Dan Boyce, Reporter, KBZK-TV, Bozeman, MT
(Deutsche Welle Radio, Englischer Dienst, Bonn)
Catherine Cheney, Web Producer, POLITICO, Washington, DC
(Spiegel Online, Berlin)
Tom Dreisbach, Freelance Reporter, Washington, DC
(Bayerischer Runfunk, Munich)
Mark Garrison, Editor, ABC News, New York, NY
(Deutsche Welle Radio, Englischer Dienst, Bonn)
Giang Nguyen, Researcher, CNN, Atlanta, GA
(ZDF Heute Redaktion, Mainz)
Heather Struck, Reporter, Forbes, New York, NY
(Zeit Online, Berlin)
Anton Troianovski, Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal, New York, NY
(Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
Susan Valot, Reporter, KPCC Radio, Pasadena, CA
(Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hannover and Hamburg)
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The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship News is published four times a year by the International Center for Journalists.
Burns Program Staff:
Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, IJP
Mario Scherhaufer, Program Director, ICFJ
Maia Curtis, ICFJ Consultant
Leigh Burke, Burns Fundraising Consultant
Emily Schult, Program Officer, ICFJ
Named in honor of the late former U.S. ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former Federal Reserve Board chairman, the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program fosters greater understanding of German–U.S. relations among future leaders of the news media.
The Burns program was established in 1988 in Germany by the Internationale Journalisten-Programme (formerly the Initiative Jugendpresse) and was originally designed for young German journalists. In 1990, the fellowship expanded to include American journalists, making it a true exchange.
Each year 20 outstanding journalists from the United States and Germany are awarded an opportunity to report from and travel in each other’s countries. The program offers 10 young print and broadcast journalists from each country the opportunity to share professional expertise with their colleagues across the Atlantic while working as “foreign correspondents” for their hometown news organizations.
Fellows work as part-time staff members at host newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations. In addition to covering local news, fellows report on events for their employers back home, while learning more about their host country and its media.
This competitive program is open to U.S. and German journalists who are employed by a newspaper, news magazine, broadcast station or news agency, and to freelancers. Applicants must have demonstrated journalistic talent and a strong interest in U.S.–European affairs. German language proficiency is not required, but is encouraged.
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Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling
Dear Friends,
Once again summer is approaching and with it, a new group of fellows. The class of 2011 will convene in Washington for the last week of July and I hope many of you will get a chance to meet them at the embassy reception on July 28. We hope that you will welcome any fellows in your respective hometowns during August and September and make their lives as easy as possible. This is what the alumni network is all about.
It was great to see so many of you at the Berlin dinner on June 1. Nearly 140 alumni and trustees provided a great turn out. Former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier used the evening for a principal speech on the state of transatlantic affairs. Outgoing State Secretary Peter Ammon, who will start later this summer as the German ambassador in Washington and new patron of this program, handed out the Burns and Kennan Awards. Read more about that in this newsletter.
I hope that you will all enjoy a great summer and will stay in touch.
As always yours,
Frank
1988
Klemens Semtner switched departments at the German Foreign Office and is now head of the Task Force for Transformation and Partnership with Tunisia.
1991
Jim Berklan continues to lead a successful team as editor for McKnight’s Long-Term Care News and its affiliated publications. McKnight’s recently was named the Gold Award winner for Best News Section in a healthcare publication for the fourth time by the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE). Berklan’s team also earned Silver Awards for Best Website (mcknights.com), Best Online News Coverage and Best Single Issue.
1992
After living and doing research in Botswana, Maria Henson joined her alma mater, Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, NC, as associate vice president and editor-at-large. She teaches journalism, blogs and oversees the university’s magazine. She was most recently the deputy editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee.
1993
Nikolaus Blome was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief of the daily Bild, while also heading the capital bureau in Berlin and reporting on economics.
1994
Robert von Rimscha has spent the past year as head of planning at the German Foreign Office and will become the German ambassador to Laos later this summer.
1995
Dominik Wichmann started his new position as deputy editor-in-chief of Stern magazine in Hamburg on June 1.
1996
Jochen Buchsteiner, a correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Jakarta, married Katrin Sohns in April. Michael Weissenborn returned to journalism—joining Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Sonntag Aktuell as a political reporter, still based in Stuttgart. Stefan Wichmann left Sat.1 and founded his own television production company, Solis TV. They produce factual content and shows for German networks, including WDR, RTL and SAT.1.
1998
Marc Fischer, 41, died on April 5. He was a freelance journalist, based in Berlin, but he traveled extensively while reporting. He wrote two novels, the second of which was published just days before his death. Titled Hobalala, it tells the story of the beauty and melancholy of bossa nova music from Brazil. Praised for his vivid storytelling, in his obituary in Welt Online, it said “Wherever he may be now, if there is a story to be found, we will be forever sad that we can’t read it.” Please read the full
obituary. Karen Kleinwort is covering international organizations and other Austrian issues as a freelance correspondent in Vienna.
1999
Warren Cohen was promoted to executive producer at VH1. Torsten Teichmann will leave Munich in August to become the bureau chief for ARD Radio in Tel Aviv. Ayla Jean Yackley and her husband Simon Johns welcomed a son, Leander, on April 14, in Istanbul, where she is a correspondent for Reuters.
2000
Oliver Becker is developing a new documentary on the correlation of climate change and venomous snake bites in Bangladesh. He will start filming in Bangladesh in July, and the final piece will air on German National Broadcaster VOX in October 2011 as part of a 12 hour series of high profile documentaries on climate change. In March, he aired a documentary on “Tap Tap” artists of Haiti, and in May, a documentary on the Football for Peace tournament in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
In this photo is Oliver's son Konrad, 10, on the family's annual trip to Washington, DC. Konrad was born during Oliver's Burns Fellowship in Trenton, NJ. Maura Kelly has written a book titled Much Ado About Loving—about what classical literature can teach about love. Simon and Schuster will publish it in February 2012.
2001
Arne Delfs started a new job as political correspondent for the economics magazine Capital, which belongs to the publishing group Gruner + Jahr Wirtschaftsmedien. Kerstin Münstermann returned to work for the news agency dapd in Berlin after a sabbatical following the birth of her son Niklas more than a year ago. Cordula Tutt and her husband Andreas welcomed their third child, daughter Clara, in Berlin.
2002
Annie Baxter hosted an hour-long program about literature for Minnesota Public Radio in April called “
Writing Minnesota.” Curtis Gilbert, her husband and a 2007 Burns alumnus, co-produced the show. Annie also writes fiction and poetry in addition to her work as a radio reporter and recently published her first
short story in Grey Sparrow. Markus Feldenkirchen and colleagues were nominated for a Henri-Nannen-Award for their story “Ein Deutsches Verbrechen,” published in Der Spiegel. Kersten Kohlenberg, along with two colleagues, was also nominated for a Henri-Nannen-Award for the article “Als das Geld vom Himmel fiel,” published in the weekly Die Zeit.
2005
Sabra Ayres moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, at the end of May to work for DAI, a Bethesda-based USAID contractor working on stabilization projects in the country. She’ll be a knowledge and information manager (essentially a communications position) for one year. Manuel J. Hartung graduated with a master’s in public administration from Harvard University, while on a leave of absence as the editor-in-chief of Zeit Campus, the student spin-off of Die Zeit. He is returning to Hamburg and will become executive director of Tempus Corporate, the year-old corporate publishing unit of Zeit Verlag. Christian Meier, head of the digital department at the media service Kressreport, became deputy editor-in-chief of the online service Meedia, still based in Berlin. Christian Thiele left his job as senior editor with Playboy magazine and will freelance as a writer for magazines and newspapers, a media consultant and journalism teacher in Munich.
2006
2007
Philipp Abresch left his job as junior correspondent in Singapore to become bureau chief for ARD German Television in Tokyo just in time to witness the earthquake and following tsunami. He hasn’t been off the air since. Curtis Gilbert recently got a new position at Minnesota Public Radio. He’s moving out of his role as a producer and will become a reporter, covering city government in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
2008
Fabian Löhe now works as a Berlin correspondent for the online service of Financial Times Deutschland.
2009
Roman Pletter will leave his editorial job in Germany this fall to become a McCloy Fellow at Harvard University. Gregor Waschinski started as a correspondent for Agence France Presse in Washington in April.
2010
Johannes Boie spent his Burns fellowship last year at the Los Angeles Times. The team and project that he worked with recently won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Please read Johannes’
article about it in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Christian Salewski accepted an offer for a full-time editorial position at G+J Business. Starting this month, he will cover magazine development, science and society/politics.
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Washington, DC, Orientation:
July 26 - July 31, 2011
2011 Fellowships:
Aug. 1 - Sept. 30, 2011
U.S. Trustees (2010-2013)
Patron: The Honorable Dr. Klaus Scharioth, German Ambassador to the United States
Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
Elizabeth Becker, Journalist and Author
Amb. J.D. Bindenagel, Vice President, Community, Government and International Affairs, DePaul University
Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Managing Editor and International Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman and CEO, BASF
Marcus W. Brauchli, Executive Editor, The Washington Post
Amb. Richard Burt, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Martin Bussmann, Mannheim LLC
Nikhil Deogun, Managing Editor, CNBC
David W. Detjen, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP
Dr. Frank-Dieter Freiling, Director, Internationale Journalisten Programme, e.V. (IJP)
Prof. Dr. Ronald Frohne, President and CEO, GWFF USA, Inc.
Neil Henry, Professor and Dean, School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
James F. Hoge, Jr., Director, Human Rights Watch (Honorary Chairman)
Iain Holding, Corporate Vice President, Global Sales Strategy, Beiersdorf North America
Robert M. Kimmitt, Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates
Frank E. Loy, Former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (Chairman)
Sen. Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator
Wolfgang Pordzik, Executive Vice President, Corporate Public Policy, DHL North America
John F. W. Rogers, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Garrick Utley, President, Levin Institute, SUNY
Stanford S. Warshawsky, Chairman, Bismarck Capital, LLC (Vice Chairman)
Legal Advisor: Phillip C. Zane, Attorney at Law, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz
German Trustees (2010-2013)
Patron: The Honorable Philip D. Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Germany
Erik Bettermann, Director-General, Deutsche Welle
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Bettzuege, German Ambassador to Brussels
Dr. Martin Blessing, CEO, Commerzbank AG
Prof. Maria Böhmer, State Minister, Member of Parliament, CDU/CSU
Tom Buhrow, Anchorman, ARD
Sabine Christiansen, Journalist, TV21 Media
Dr. Mathias Döpfner, CEO, Axel Springer AG
Thomas Ellerbeck, Chairman, Vodafone Foundation
Leonhard F. Fischer, Partner, RHJI Swiss Management
Dr. Rüdiger Frohn, Chairman, Stiftung Mercator
Emilio Galli-Zugaro, Head Group Communications, Allianz Group
Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck, Former Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank AG (Honorary Chairman)
Dr. Werner Hoyer, State Minister, Foreign Office, FDP
Dr. Luc Jochimsen, Member of Parliament, Die Linke
Hans-Werner Kilz, Former Editor-in-Chief, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Dr. Torsten-Jörn Klein, Board member, Gruner + Jahr AG
Rob Meines, Meines & Partners, The Hague
Kerstin Müller, Former State Minister, Member of Parliament, Buendnis 90/Die Grünen
Rainer Neske, Board Member, Deutsche Bank (Chairman)
Dagmar Reim, Director General, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Prof. Markus Schächter, Director-General, ZDF German TV
Helmut Schäfer, Former State Minister, Foreign Office (Honorary Chairman)
Monika Schaller , Senior Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Steffen Seibert, Government Spokesman
Dr. Frank Walter Steinmeier, Former Foreign Minister, Chair of the SPD Parliamentary Group
Tobias Trevisan , CEO, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Lord George Weidenfeld, Former CEO, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
The Arthur F. Burns Board of Trustees in the United States and Germany acknowledges with gratitude the support of the following organizations and individuals who have made the 2011 Arthur F. Burns program possible.
Sponsors in the U.S.
Alston & Bird, LLP
BASF
Beiersdorf, NA
Robert Bosch Stiftung
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
DHL North America
The Ford Foundation
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
The Ladenburg Foundation
Mars Incorporated
NBCUniversal
Individual Contributions
John and Gina Despres
David Detjen
The Hon. Frank E. Loy
Stanford S. Warshawsky
Sponsors in Germany
Allianz SE
Auswärtiges Amt.
Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend
Deutsche Bank AG
European Recovery Program (ERP), Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Siemens AG
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